20 Predictions For This Oscar Season's Rotten Tomatoes Scores

Predicted Critical Consensus: "Emily Blunt's mesmerising performance makes The Girl on the Train a superior bestseller adaptation, which is jam-packed with intriguing twists and turns throughout."

It's already been called "this year's Gone Girl" by just about every online movie site going, and while it likely won't reach the critical and commercial highs of David Fincher's sordid masterwork, it's almost certainly going to be this Oscar season's pulp candidate for Best Picture.

Blunt looks like she's doing terrific work and a Best Actress nomination here would do wonders for her career, so it really just depends upon how well Tate Taylor (The Help) has adapted the more salacious and absurd elements of Paula Hawkins' novel.

Fincher inverted the silliness of Gone Girl and made the movie subversive, but it will take a deft sleight of hand from Taylor to pull off the same feat here.

Still, it's easy to see this one ending up as a classy melodrama that scores a few cursory Oscar nods even if it possibly goes home empty-handed.